So, how long before FOIA is repealed? Anyone? Anyone?
What always surprises me is that people working for these bodies, like the FBI, are more than willing to commit these deeds, and yet seem to have no thought toward destroying the evidence, let alone complying with a FOIA request.
Or are we only seeing the violations committed by the stupid ones?
I traded my Pontiac Firebird ('87) for a Civic hybrid a year ago Feb. Mileage doubled (compared to the Firebird) immediately into the low 40s and climbed from there. Now, it's reliably 44-46. True, less than the hype, but still damned good. I also didn't change my driving habits all that much. The Civic doesn't handle like the Firebird (shock), but I still drive it pretty hard.
The only oddity re: the mileage is that figuring it manually is always 2-3 mpg lower than the read-out on the dashboard... probably due to variations in tank fill level.
Surely someone else saw Zahn's (sp?) interview with Gates this a.m., so please back me up. I could have sworn that Bill said something to the effect that "one of the nice things about the internet is that you have lots of interested people looking for security flaws". I didn't catch the follow-on, but could that have been some kind of unintented compliment to open source? Has anyone looked for pods in Bill's basement?
Be very careful about requesting credit checks on yourself, or giving authorization to a third party to keep periodic tabs on your credit standing. As I understand it, each time someone runs a credit check on you, it actually serves to reduce your credit worthiness. The thinking goes something like... if this person's credit is being checked often, it must mean that someone is having trouble collecting a debt or enforcing payment schedules. Big RED flag to mortgage houses.
"... they should pass something that says any rider tacked on must be related to the main bill."
I agree, and went so far as to put that question to our (MO's) outgoing senator Ashcroft before the election this fall. He claimed that, at least in the Senate, there were rules preventing such actions as you describe, yet we seem to witness them frequently.
I have no real way of determining the truth of his claim, but I suspect it was total BS. Or at least the rules may be so haphazardly enforced that they are meaningless.
It seems to be an easy way to poison a bill which can then be voted for by the congressperson without any real danger of it getting signed. Then they can say "I voted for Motherhood but that do-nothing president wouldn't sign it." What they never tell is that at the last minute Motherhood was shackled to an ex-Nazi.
I used to work for a little applied R&D outfit in Kansas City MO - Midwest Research Institute - and their traffic engineers have been preaching this stuff since 1981. I helped them complete/operate some traffic simulation software (FORTRAN) and the fluid dynamic aspects became pretty obvious.
I guess 20 years for rediscovery is an improvement over that required for Mendle's genetics.
Aren't they afraid of using the very thing they identify as contributing to the problem, to combat the problem; namely the internet? What if someone goes to snitch, uses the web site and becomes contaminated just by the act of using the web? Horrors! (or is that Whores?)
This also does nothing to lift NC from the image of a rightwing goon state. Too bad, as I'm sure most folks there are not of that mind.
I can't believe I don't see this in the posts yet, but isn't this the same idea as the Star Trek (original - and BEST) episode about the planet killer machine, powering itself on the digested remains of the planets it destroys?
I say let's spam 'em! Just sprinkle likely trigger words randomly North Korea through your emails. Your recipient NORAD might be confused until you potassium nitrate explain it to them, but that's a small price to pay for anthrax the fun. We could also attach boiler plate to our sig files, replacing those threadbare Star Trek snippets. It's kind of like that Jeff Goldblum tactic in one of his less-than-successful movies, where he tells his captors so many different stories, they don't know which one to believe.
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... and yes, I am ashamed.
I haven't RTFA but "The studies indicate it's not a virus"??? Didn't we already know that?
So, how long before FOIA is repealed? Anyone? Anyone?
What always surprises me is that people working for these bodies, like the FBI, are more than willing to commit these deeds, and yet seem to have no thought toward destroying the evidence, let alone complying with a FOIA request.
Or are we only seeing the violations committed by the stupid ones?
"Not chess, Mr. Spock... poker" -J.T. Kirk
I traded my Pontiac Firebird ('87) for a Civic hybrid a year ago Feb. Mileage doubled (compared to the Firebird) immediately into the low 40s and climbed from there. Now, it's reliably 44-46. True, less than the hype, but still damned good. I also didn't change my driving habits all that much. The Civic doesn't handle like the Firebird (shock), but I still drive it pretty hard.
The only oddity re: the mileage is that figuring it manually is always 2-3 mpg lower than the read-out on the dashboard... probably due to variations in tank fill level.
can write a FROTRAN program in any language.
"That's one degree of separation!"
And here I thought that was just MS marketing mumbo jumbo.
Surely someone else saw Zahn's (sp?) interview with Gates this a.m., so please back me up. I could have sworn that Bill said something to the effect that "one of the nice things about the internet is that you have lots of interested people looking for security flaws". I didn't catch the follow-on, but could that have been some kind of unintented compliment to open source? Has anyone looked for pods in Bill's basement?
*Real* programmers can write a FORTRAN program in any language.
Be very careful about requesting credit checks on yourself, or giving authorization to a third party to keep periodic tabs on your credit standing. As I understand it, each time someone runs a credit check on you, it actually serves to reduce your credit worthiness. The thinking goes something like... if this person's credit is being checked often, it must mean that someone is having trouble collecting a debt or enforcing payment schedules. Big RED flag to mortgage houses.
-J
"... they should pass something that says any rider tacked on must be related to the main bill."
I agree, and went so far as to put that question to our (MO's) outgoing senator Ashcroft before the election this fall. He claimed that, at least in the Senate, there were rules preventing such actions as you describe, yet we seem to witness them frequently.
I have no real way of determining the truth of his claim, but I suspect it was total BS. Or at least the rules may be so haphazardly enforced that they are meaningless.
It seems to be an easy way to poison a bill which can then be voted for by the congressperson without any real danger of it getting signed. Then they can say "I voted for Motherhood but that do-nothing president wouldn't sign it." What they never tell is that at the last minute Motherhood was shackled to an ex-Nazi.
I used to work for a little applied R&D outfit in Kansas City MO - Midwest Research Institute - and their traffic engineers have been preaching this stuff since 1981. I helped them complete/operate some traffic simulation software (FORTRAN) and the fluid dynamic aspects became pretty obvious.
I guess 20 years for rediscovery is an improvement over that required for Mendle's genetics.
Aren't they afraid of using the very thing they identify as contributing to the problem, to combat the problem; namely the internet? What if someone goes to snitch, uses the web site and becomes contaminated just by the act of using the web? Horrors! (or is that Whores?)
This also does nothing to lift NC from the image of a rightwing goon state. Too bad, as I'm sure most folks there are not of that mind.
I can't believe I don't see this in the posts yet, but isn't this the same idea as the Star Trek (original - and BEST) episode about the planet killer machine, powering itself on the digested remains of the planets it destroys?
I say let's spam 'em! Just sprinkle likely trigger words randomly North Korea through your emails. Your recipient NORAD might be confused until you potassium nitrate explain it to them, but that's a small price to pay for anthrax the fun. We could also attach boiler plate to our sig files, replacing those threadbare Star Trek snippets. It's kind of like that Jeff Goldblum tactic in one of his less-than-successful movies, where he tells his captors so many different stories, they don't know which one to believe.
Flood the system.
My god... where do you live? I must ask! Sorry!